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RDCanecutter

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  1. In the 30s that was the French and British plan for dealing with the Germans and Soviets.
  2. That's not far off for some of those old-school Greek and Latin classes. In the 90s I was lucky enough to take a couple that would have been right at home in the 1890s. We'd take our turns translating lines of Lysias, and then it'd be instant verb analysis: person, number, tense, mood, bam bam bam. We got to be Forrest Gump reassembling that rifle. I lived this all across muddy-ass Gaul:
  3. Maybe it's more like Dunlendings resenting the influx of Haradrim and Easterlings. huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu [milk out nose]
  4. ALL WOULD FALL INTO DISORDER. (Actually not sure if they do that much anymore. The best language learning technique, the one that works, is to get drunk with someone you find attractive who only speaks the target language.) But me yeah I love to get an overview of the verb system. Same reason I prefer a militaristic Anglican church service to some lah-dee-dah-dee non-denominational snooze-fest-- Johnnie Froggy's not backing down until we back him down... Wait for it... WAIT for it... Conjugate! Amo Amas Ama Amamos Amáis [panic among the recruits--"we never learned the vosotros form, we--" "SHUT yer bleedin gobs and SAY IT."] Aman
  5. I just had three eggs. Now off to dive into the vault of gold coins.
  6. His Dr. Evil bit is getting better. Just one shaved head and a house cat away from getting his mojo back.
  7. I dunno if I ever mentioned what I do to make the most of drawing time. At least once a week I'll get stuck somewhere boring for an hour or two. When I know that's going to happen, I take a couple of Sharpies and at least a dozen "baseball card" panels I have chopped out of wine box (a beautiful honey graham cracker color with fine corrugation.) Then I draw, draw like the wind. At shows I will put mini-shoeboxes of these drawings on the corners of my front table at 5 bucks or 3 for 10, and they stop people like they've been tased. Then after somebody loosens up and relaxes, they might look up and get interested in larger paintings. Or just get a scad of these little ones. S'all good.
  8. Fans trying to get a stay in the Birmingham Jail after wallowing in wet grass on logo. For their sake I hope the AC isn't working.
  9. The way it usually works here is that those strikes in the SW will slide NE up I-59, just dragging their asses over the stadium uptown.
  10. Yep. I am at home with flu-recovering wife, and don't feel like inflicting fresh flu on myself by sitting in a bowl of drizzly rain. Got a new roof at home, heater works, and tamales for tonight. Y'all have fun out there!
  11. I know almost no Creole, but I was listening to a Haitian radio station one day, and dang if they didn't occasionally slip into expressions that I last heard in the north of France in Picardy. Probably an interesting story behind that.
  12. Yep. When I was teaching languages, occasionally some administrator would chime in that I should point out all the reasons for learning them, the reasons why I myself learned them. And I would come up with some set of advantages to language study, because I've found that administration is a humorless Shoggoth if you ignore it, but truth be told, I didn't study any language for a reason, other than they make me happy. Don't make you happy? Do something else.
  13. If we're ever gonna be in the same place, let's use our age and treachery against her youth and idealism. We can learn some short Gaelic dialogue and just rattle it off. I'll be impressed with your fluency. You give me a beer and some food. Deal?
  14. Only if the courses are drinking binges where Diego shoots out the juke box, then Tina Modetti slanky-dances with Frida.
  15. Yo-u no-u se-ii perro tall vezz suh-ree-uh la sa-loo-shion.
  16. Won't fit through the hoop.
  17. On second thought, I need to apologize to Kathy. I remember that for about 14 years, I was an art quitter too. Made some bold freelance moves in my 20s. Got my financial teeth kicked in. Fled to safe jobs and grad school, until one day I woke up teaching at Aggy. Fled to Mexico. Best move ever. Became an artist again. Took a while to go full-time, but after my first michelada the healing started. Sorry, Kathy. You just need to go to Mexico. You'll be alright.
  18. Yep. Bought it on S. Congress during the Austin leg of our honeymoon while we were staying in the Hank Williams suite of one of those hotels down there with a neon sign shaped like dick and balls.
  19. Year-End 2024 Art Report Year started slowly and was interrupted with occasional tedious stuff, but that's normal. Paid all bills. Finished strong. Did 29 shows total. Would have been 30 but one was on my mom's birthday party, so I skipped it and took gifts of jewelry to all the womenfolk. To keep with the metal theme the men will get plunking ammo for their favorite toys, but I am shopped out at the moment. Geographical Conquests: actually retrenched a little, concentrating on Birmingham and Montgomery. I must go to Atlanta and Nashville soon. Plan is for me to get travel van for overnight travel farther afield. Still avoiding local "big" multi-day shows. I think they are way over-priced for the profit, and the thought of leaving art unattended to the mercy of weather afflicts me with sleep deprivation. Did some new shows, one of them was the #3 best seller. I am way behind on commissions. I have them, I am just slow. Leaning on the prints has been a winner. I have hundreds of sold paintings saved digitally, I order them in batches of 20 or so from Redbubble, but only 2 or 3 of each. Back them with mat board, put them inside ClearBags, bingo, nice instant art widget that sells itself. Then order different ones so it stays fresh. In 4 local stores, it's not big but it's fun. Like having 4 fruit trees spread around the county that I am allowed to graze. For the Cold Wet Time of Jan-Feb 25 I plan to go back to my roots, swamp eBay with fast simple art, while putting down a drop cloth in our "loft" (top of staircase) and laboring on large vainglorious canvases. Like maybe "The Night Watch" except with Apes wearing 1600s munitions armor and elkhide coats, matchlocks in simian paws.
  20. It takes a village, and at least in my case, lead paint chips.
  21. Ayup. Once I got something off eBay and the guy used Zimbabwean notes as packing materials. Even the "solid" precious metal currencies were given to slips, slides, and petty deceits. One thing that fascinates me is Mexico's coins since the early 1900s. They were (are?) devoted to keeping some of the coins in silver, and so you'd have a real silver coin, but the numbers on it kept getting bigger. Like watching a brave but overwhelmed army fighting to hang onto a trench before having to retreat to another.
  22. My Brother, millimetres? Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly?
  23. Looks like you got some natural pimp in you, son.
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